The Honourable the Irish Society made their annual visitation to the Coleraine campus of the Northern Regional College last week to present special achievement awards to students in the vocational areas of Travel & Tourism and Engineering. The two recipients were Danielle McNeill and Stephen Austin.
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Engineering students from the Northern Regional College have won the IET Formula 24+ Greenpower NI & IE Championships. They were also placed third overall. Students designed and developed a single seat electric car and raced this against other school teams from across Northern Ireland and Ireland, as part of an engineering education initiative supported by pioneering local educators. All NRC students involved are currently studying Level 3 Extended Diploma in Engineering at the Newtownabbey Campus and their race team was called ‘Northern Thunder’.
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Colleges NI officially unveiled Further Education’s top innovators recently and rewarded them for coming up with a raft of exciting new projects linked to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). A range of prizes and awards were presented at the Business & Education through Skills & Training (BEST) Awards for the most promising and innovative concepts emerging from Northern Ireland’s six regional FE colleges. An expert team of industry and innovation specialists chose 13 category winners and four grand award winners at the event, held in Belfast’s Ramada Plaza, while eight outstanding students were selected to take part in the STEM-focused Frontiers Programme in Massachusetts, USA this summer.
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The best local construction apprentices from across Northern Ireland tested their skills in 11 different construction trades at Skillbuild NI 2015. NRC apprentice Philip Kernohan won Gold in the Cabinet Making competing against the top apprentices from across Northern Ireland. Philip, a past pupil of Dunclug School joined the college as an apprentice bench Joiner in 2014 and is now hoping to build on his success at regional level by progressing to the UK Skill Build Finals. Philip is employed by Hayburn Wood Productions, leading specialists in luxury kitchens, fitted furniture and architectural joinery based in Galgorm and working throughout the UK and Ireland. Hayburn and Co have a long and very supportive association with the college as a leading employer in training top class tradesmen.
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A £700,000 Big Lottery Fund project launched today (21st May) will support children who have autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia living in the Antrim and Magherafelt area. The Empower project, funded under the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Out: Supporting Families programme, will support children under 12, their parents and the wider family circle to develop confidence and learn together to develop skills to support their children. The project will work with four main target groups: parents, the wider family circle, children and young people and wider stakeholders. The project will also engage with health professionals, schools, childcare providers and other groups to raise awareness of autism, dyslexia &dyspraxia, encourage early diagnosis and referral to specialist services and educate on best practice.
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Northern Regional College (NRC), Ballymena, has been awarded third place in a national award recognising their commitment to preparing their students for the world of work. The award, sponsored by Santander, comes from Career Academies UK, a national charity that aims to make young people work ready through a programme of mentoring, masterclasses, internships and workplace visits. The award is presented to schools or colleges that have best demonstrated excellence in employer engagement and improving the career prospect of students. NRC is the only Northern Ireland college to be recognised in the national awards. The college was recognised for its careers programme for Level 3 Engineering Students which 'boosts' student employability by aligning students with mentors from industry and provides paid summer work experience. The programme is run through the College by participating companies such as Schrader Electronics, Hutchinson Engineering, McAuley Engineering, Michelin, Randox Laboratories, CAT, RYOBI, Quad-X and NITC.
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